On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>
> I've updated the JDE to handle environment variables in classpaths and was
> planning on including relative paths as well. Both will be included in the
> next release. Now, at Jason's prompting, I'll probably also add the ability
> to include all the jar/lib files in the directories specified by
> jde-class-library-dirs.
>
All of this sounds really great and may I suggest another related feature
?
One of the great things about ant is that it let you specify both
classpath and extdirs. And dependent on wether the compiler is javac or
jikes it handle them transparently.
1. If it is javac it just uses -cp <classpath> and -extdirs <extdirslist>
2. If it is jikes it appends all the dirs and jar files found in
<extdirslist> to the classpath.
Could a similar functionallity be incoporated into JDE ?
maybe a jde-compile-compiler-support-extdirs that should be set to false
to activate option 2 above.
And to be complete a jde-run-jvm-support-extdirs to do the same for Java
1.1 (which do not support extdirs) and Java 1.2-3 (which does support it)
Did that make any sense ? I hope so :)
ps. The reason for differentiate classpath and extdirs and not just
concatente them is that extdirs and classpath has differences in their
semantics for classloading...
Max R. Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
